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Yunnan Qujing Longwei apple accused by New Zealand's Prevar of variety infringement
Yesterday, Shenzhen SVM Variety Management Co., Ltd. (SVM) issued a statement in both Chinese and English. The statement directly pointed to Longwei apple in Yunnan as infringing, stating that units and individuals in Yunnan had, without permission, propagated, sold and planted Prevar A280 apple saplings, infringing the
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Linux Foundation launches open source project AgStand for agriculture to achieve intelligent agricultural information
The AgStand Foundation will build and maintain global food and agriculture data infrastructure to help with digital transformation and address climate change, rural participation, and food and water security issues. On May 5, 2021, Calif. San Francisco, the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit that drives innovation on a massive scale through open source
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Pandemic Pushes Traditional Agriculture to Transform, Agricultural E-commerce Sees New Opportunities
As COVID-19 entered community transmission, a level 3 alert was implemented across Taiwan, China, schools suspended classes, companies and businesses switched to remote work, and small farmers everywhere saw their livelihoods hit hard. With people staying at home, various organic produce e-commerce platforms provided services at the right time, with sales growing severalfold; consumers buying directly
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No pesticides, no chemical fertilizers: Lin Yilong's 16 years of farming with stable income
Lin Yilong's home sits on the mountainside of Luye Highland, where time paces between the Coastal Range and the Central Range. In the morning, he watches the mist drift through the Beinan River Valley; at night, he observes the moon wax and wane, letting the stars lull him to sleep. Dulan Mountain and Luye River sing in harmony, a performance of "The Four Seasons" he never tires of hearing.
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Grape orders plummet by 70 percent, small farmers call for bulk group purchases by companies and communities
Grapes hang heavy on the vines, yet farmers in Dacun, Changhua pick them with great anxiety. After the domestic pandemic alert was raised to Level 3, people's consumption shifted from physical stores to online, causing orders from restaurants and fruit shops to drop; when "Upstream and Downstream" actually asked farmers' associations and farmers in the production areas, it found that grapes in the Dacun area are mostly sold directly by farmers, with a small portion sold on their behalf by the farmers' association. With school closures, staggered work shifts and unstable logistics and delivery conditions, orders have fallen sharply for both the farmers' association and the farmers, with farmers' orders down by more than 70 percent. Last year's warm winter also caused grapes in Nantou to mature early, so the grapes from both areas clashed head-on, which is quite unfavorable for sales.
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Fanling's "Heart & Effort" Organic Farm launches experiences including farm feasts and pizza workshops
Unable to travel abroad under the pandemic, many people have been thinking of heading out into nature to recover the joy of travelling. Earlier I took an organic farm tour, enjoying the greenery and tasting fresh food to the full, with a feeling much like being in Western Australia. What's even better is that right now you can also come to the hotel and enjoy
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Major Survey of Organic Fruit Products: Average Farm Operating Area Nearly 3 Hectares per Household
However, organic farmers mostly adopt diversified cultivation as their operating model. Farmers include crops they currently or plan to grow in the future in their certified product items, but there is a discrepancy between the crop items farmers actually grow and the registration data. If farmers are classified solely by their main crop category, it is difficult to grasp the actual cultivation status of organic agricultural products.
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Four-Way Development Eco-Tourism: Organic Farm Becomes a Haven for Wildlife Conservation
An organically certified eco-farm becomes a habitat haven for rare flora and fauna. The estate's original site was formerly a Taiwan Sugar Corporation sugarcane field; after 60 years of conventional monoculture farming, its ecology was fairly uniform. After the estate took over the lease, through sixteen years of effort, the original land was transformed
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Manage farmland with LINE! Cloud-based agriculture app monitors your digital farm in real time
Traditional agricultural cultivation management mostly relies on manual labor. To ensure that yield and quality are not affected by pests, diseases and climate, it has gradually developed toward protected cultivation, and greenhouse environmental control equipment is used to adjust the cultivation environment. However, it still faces a shortage of agricultural labor and difficulty in passing on techniques.
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What are the benefits of chili peppers? Boosting circulation and increasing satiety
Chili peppers are used to speed up circulation, increase bioavailability, and enhance the effects of other spices. If you have ever eaten chili peppers, no one needs to tell you that they speed up the body, because you will sweat and feel their effects. The most widely used medicinal
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